THE GASSING FIASCO: CAN HICHILEMA TELL US THE TRUTH?
The recent acquittal of former president Edgar Lungu’s political adviser, Dr Chris Zumani Zimba, and three others by the Lusaka High Court confirms Mr Hakainde Hichilema’s dictatorship and abuse of the criminal justice system.
On April 29, 2023, Dr Zimba and his co- accused were taken into custody, and a few days later, harshest charges were prescribed against them. Their evil tormentors had no shame but to lamp them with terrorism charges.
They were kept in custody until December 1, 2023, when Lusaka High Court judge Koreen Mwenda rubbished the charges brought before the court at the insistence of Mr Hichilema’s little evil men.
The court’s verdict and the subsequent release of Dr Zimba and his co-accused exposed the lengths to which Mr Hichilema and his corrupt puppet regime will go to destroy their own citizens’ lives through the abuse of the criminal justice system. Is this part of the persecution of political opponents Mr Hichilema promised during the last official opening of the National Assembly?
Clearly, when it comes to exterminating critical voices and protecting their own political and business interests, Mr Hichilema and his corrupt evil league are people without conscience, empathy, and compassion. They’re cold-hearted people who don’t care about their fellow human beings.
We said it then, and we are saying it now: there was absolutely no need to torture innocent citizens of this country in this manner. This whole exercise was unnecessary, and it was not appropriate for the government to proceed against it’s own citizens in this manner.
Young families were totally grounded to a halt. Deprived of breadwinners and fathers for a period exceeding seven months as Mr Hichilema’s little evil men threw a party!
Right from the inception of this case, it was very clear that the decision to arrest Dr Zimba and the three others was carried out in bad faith with the intent to harm and destroy innocent people and families. A total abuse of the criminal justice system.
As expected, in the final analysis, it was the innocent prosecutors who bore the burden of proving frivolous and vexatious charges. And anyone who cares about truth knows that those young men had nothing to do with any charge brought against them. Their only offence was their allegiance to a group of politicians or individuals, Mr Hichilema and his corrupt puppet regime hate so much.
The gassing case fiasco, which was before the court, demonstrates Mr Hichilema’s appetite for tyranny and total abuse of the criminal justice system.
Sadly, cases such as this one are being used to put pressure on the judiciary to make decisions that are supportive of the regime’s evil decisions and actions, and this tendency, if not checked will have negative effects and erode public confidence in the criminal justice system.
Nonetheless, we applaud judicial officers who are committed to protecting and safeguarding their integrity and dignity as well as protecting public interest.
The evil and indignity that led to the persecution of Dr Zimba and his co-accused must not be allowed to flourish in this country because it will lead to a chaotic, unjust, immoral and inhumane society. This is how countries get destroyed, and we need to stop this cruelty and madness!
That said, we ask a question: with Dr Zimba and his co-accused acquitted in the gassing fiasco, who then was gassing people? Can Mr Hichilema and this regime tell the nation the truth?
Fred M’membe
President of the Socialist Party
Fred or whatever you call your idiot self do not dare mock the normal Zambians, the fact that those idiots were acquitted probably by poor and incompetent handling of a case by NPA doesn’t mean Zambians were not gassed and killed.
It is actually you and your fellow idiots in PF who must own up and tell the same people you want to come and rule how evil and satanic you are. Already by your premature celebration of the acquittal you have exposed your the devilish side where you stand as regards the evil gassing and killing of innocent Zambians. STUPID IDIOT.
I have been telling all you people that Hakainde has no appetite to get to the bottom of the many wrongs that citizens went through. He has zero interest in the concerns of voters. His agenda is simple. To please his foreign white masters by giving them our mines, to normalise LGBT, and to become as rich as Dangote. Or, and to become life president like Kagame.
It is a shame that a person who claims to be knowledgeable can come up with such a write up…
When was this gassing and who should have been responsible to bring the perpetrators to book… Someone knows exactly who did this except they have for now covered their tracks and would like to heap the blame on an innocent person…
Most unfortunate…
You also know that the sale and privatisation was started by KK and we know the people who were responsible in selling these assets and most of them are still alive but for reasons only best known to yourself, you choose to bring out only the name of HH7…
Most unfortunate…
Tell us where the borrowed money was used to do the roads…
The entire Copperbelt is a disaster and yet PF claim they spent on Infrastructure…
Which Infrastructure because most of it was abandoned at ground breaking level and yet funds left the Treasury….
When PF took over, the US$ to ZMW was at around K5 / $ and when they left, it was around K22… UPND tried to bring it down to K15 but could not sustain it due to low productivity especially with the mines which were shut down by PF…
We all agree that Vendetta wasn’t good but the wrong route to take over is what has brought us here…
Mopani was equally mishandled and when your friend tries to clean your mess, you claim that he has failed….
Farmers are now able to Access loans at 12%…. This should be commended but you Rubbish it off… It may have come a bit late but it will go a long way in addressing the Agriculture Sector and our food security…
We are coming from an abyss, a dark place and will need time to come to the surface and we expect teething problems along the way….
Not everything is okay but we need to address all these issues…
On corruption, we need to fight this vice from what happened in the past to what is happening now and it should not be called Persecution when it involves those that were in government BEFORE…
I submit…